Record the call from the menu bar.

A Mac is where most video calls happen, and a phone on the desk is a poor way to record one: it hears the other participants through the laptop speaker. EchoPilot for Mac is the desktop half of the AI meeting assistant, built for exactly that call.

What it captures

Two streams, together: your microphone, and the audio your Mac is playing. The second one is what makes a recorded call as usable as a meeting recorded in the room, because the remote participants are captured at source rather than picked up acoustically.

On macOS 14.2 or later, meeting audio is captured alongside the microphone. On an older macOS the app records your microphone only, and it says so on the panel rather than letting you find out afterwards.

Each source has its own mute button in the panel, on by default, and you can change either one before you start or in the middle of a meeting. Muting affects what EchoPilot records and nothing else: you stay unmuted in Zoom or Teams, and your computer’s volume does not change. See the desktop overview for what happens when both are muted.

Recording without a bot

A notetaker bot joins the call as a participant. It has to be invited, it appears in the list for everyone to see, a host can refuse it, and it only covers the meetings it was sent to. EchoPilot records on your own Mac instead, the way a screen recording would, so it covers any call you join without inviting anything into it: see recording Zoom meetings, recording Teams meetings and recording Google Meet calls.

A recording starts when you press Record, when you accept an offer, or when you join a call in an app you set to Auto.

In the menu bar

EchoPilot lives in the menu bar and stays out of the way until a meeting starts. The recording panel shows the timer and the level of each stream; Highlight, Pause and Stop are one click away, and the menu bar menu carries the same controls, so nothing needs a window open. Opening the full app gives you one Dock entry, and closing it returns EchoPilot to the menu bar.

Meeting detection

EchoPilot can notice that you have joined a call and offer to record it, so you are prompted at the right moment rather than remembering afterwards that you meant to. An offer never starts a recording by itself. Choosing Record on the prompt starts the meeting there and then, with nothing else to press. Detection reads local process and window metadata, never meeting content. We do not publish a list of conferencing applications it is guaranteed to recognise, so start the recording yourself when a meeting matters and no prompt has appeared.

Automatic recording

On Pro, set a meeting app to Auto and EchoPilot starts recording when you join a call and stops when the call ends. You agree to it once, and you can stop a recording at any time. Auto is offered for the calls checked on real meetings: the Zoom and Microsoft Teams apps, and Google Meet in Chrome. For calls in a browser, add the EchoPilot Chrome extension and turn on Browser meetings in Settings.

Long calls, safely

Audio is written to disk in segments as the meeting runs, so a crash, a forced restart or a dropped connection costs seconds rather than the meeting. A whole call can be recorded with no connection and uploads itself later. When EchoPilot has evidence a meeting may have ended, it asks whether to continue; silence alone never stops a recording. Sleep pauses capture, and Resume picks it up again.

Highlight the moment

Press Highlight on the panel, or choose it from the menu bar, and EchoPilot marks that moment. Highlights arrive in the finished minutes exactly like the ones marked on an iPhone or an Apple Watch, each one a jump to that point in the recording.

Then it is everywhere else

A call recorded on your Mac appears on your iPhone, on Android and in the web app like any other recording, with the same Meeting Minutes, the same searchable transcript and the same action cards waiting for approval. One account, one subscription, every device. The same app, in the system tray, is EchoPilot for Windows.

What you need

macOS 13 or later, on Apple silicon or Intel, and an EchoPilot account. Meeting audio needs macOS 14.2 or later. Desktop capture is on Free and Pro, and a desktop recording spends your meeting minutes exactly as a phone recording does.

The Mac build is signed and notarized. The Apple silicon and Intel downloads, with the install and update notes, are on the download page.

What this does not claim

Desktop capture of microphone and meeting audio. On Mac, meeting audio needs macOS 14.2 or later. Below that the app records the microphone only and says so.

Desktop meeting detection. Detection can notice that a call has started and offer to record it. It is not a list of supported apps, so when a meeting matters, start the recording yourself.

Automatic recording on Mac. Mac only, on Pro, after you agree to it once. Auto is offered for the calls checked on real meetings: the Zoom and Microsoft Teams apps, and Google Meet in Chrome with the EchoPilot extension. Every other app can be set to Ask or Off.

Segmented, resumable recording. Audio is written to disk as the meeting runs, so an interruption does not lose it. A whole meeting can be recorded with no connection and uploads itself later.